House GOP asks White House if administration's remote work policy led to 'reduced productivity' by federal employees

Republicans on the House Oversight Committee are demanding that the White House explain what motivated a recent push for federal employees to work more in-person.

In a letter sent Thursday and obtained by CNN, Chairman James Comer, Rep. Pete Sessions, the chair of a federal workforce subcommittee, and Rep. Lauren Boebert questioned whether the Biden administration’s post-pandemic telework policy led to “reduced productivity” by federal employees after a recent White House call for more in-office work.

House Republicans have been criticizing the Biden administration’s telework policies and passed the SHOW UP Act that would force federal offices to reimplement pre-pandemic work policies. Comer has